the Guardian
Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say
Cash provides essential fallback when digital payments break down, Payment Choice Alliance points out
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An additional reason to insist on support for cash payment is to reduce the damage done by internet server failures. I wish there were an organization in the US to campaign for the option of paying cash. Can anyone point me at one?